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This summary comparison of major 428 engine components was prepared by Bill Barr, Principal Engineer for the 428 Cobra Jet engine development program at Ford Motor Company. Unless specifically noted this comparison does not include the parts that are unique to the 428 Super Cobra Jet engine.

My name is Bill Barr, retired from Ford Engine Engineering. Starting in the fall of 1962 I was the Dynamometer Development/Test Engineer for the 1963 Indianapolis pushrod engine and then one of the five engineers in the Indy Engine Group for the 1964 DOHC engine. The 1964 group included a supervisor, a principal engineer, five design engineers, and a Dynamometer Coordinator. The 1965 Indy Engine Group expanded by one engineer. After the 1965 race for which 50 "production" race engines were built and sold (and Jim Clark won the 1965 Indy 500 race), the Indy Race Group was disbanded and personnel were dispersed to other engine engineering projects.

There are a lot of bad actors in the world who crawl web sites looking to harvest email addresses for spammers, or to inject bogus links to spam and malware sites. One of the ways I try to combat that behavior is by using a service that keeps track of known miscreants and automatically prevents them from accessing this site. The IP address of every site visitor is checked against a database, and if your address is associated with some suspicious activity you will be asked to take an extra authentication step before you'll be given access to the site. This process is called "greylisting". If you follow the directions and complete the extra step your address will be "whitelisted" and you'll be good to go.

The service provides a web interface that you can use to search for your IP address if you want to see the type of activity that's been associated with your IP address. Please keep in mind that the information you see may have nothing to do with you. It may well describe the behavior of someone else that has used the same IP address in the past.

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This web site is supposed to be displayed using the full width of your web browser and display terminal. It's displayed properly with the Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer version 9 web browsers, but IE 8 (and maybe earlier versions) compresses the display away from the edges. That's a bug in the browser. Please upgrade to IE 9 or try another browser if the compressed display is a problem for you.